In a very interesting Blog post on The Hill (the blog for Congress), Rep Dana Rohrabacher reports that the Obama administration’s reaction to Arizona’s efforts to get an untenable situation under control, has been disappointingly predictable and dismissive of the majority of the American people who support what Arizona is doing.   He further states, “At every turn this administration has attempted to vilify Arizona’s efforts to enforce the law from threats of litigation by the Justice Department to our President allowing Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, to lecture us  about our immigration laws from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Rep Rohrabacher asserts that illegal immigration in the US is big business  for Mexico. After oil, the number two source of income  for Mexico is the roughly $25 billion of remittances sent back there from workers in the United States, many of whom are here illegally.

Rohrabacher blogs that one of the tactics used by the Mexican government to help maintain this revenue source is the issuance of what is known as a “Matricula Consular ID Card” to Mexican nationals who do not have proper documentation to be in this country legally. The purpose of this ID card is to help make it easier for illegals to access public services, obtain housing or open bank accounts.

According to a recent report by the Federation for Immigration Reform:

Matricula Consular ID cards — two million of which have been issued in the last two years, have drawn heated criticism because they are issued to illegal aliens who cannot access U.S.-issued identity documents. Because consular ID cards are only needed by people who aren’t legally in the U.S. in the first place, communities and businesses that accept the cards as valid ID are undermining immigration enforcement and compromising U.S. security.

Rohrabacher states that one of the tactics used by the Mexican government to help maintain this revenue source is the issuance of what is known as a “matricula consular ID card” to Mexican nationals who do not have proper documentation to be in this country legally. The purpose of this ID card is to help make it easier for illegals to access public services, obtain housing or open bank accounts.

According to a recent report by the Federation for Immigration Reform:

Matricula Consular ID Cards — two million of which have been issued in the last two years, have drawn heated criticism because they are issued to illegal aliens who cannot access U.S.-issued identity documents. Because consular ID cards are only needed by people who aren’t legally in the U.S. in the first place, communities and businesses that accept the cards as valid ID are undermining immigration enforcement and compromising U.S. security.

“There’s no way around the fact that consular ID cards are only needed by people who aren’t legally in the U.S. in the first place. Indeed, relying on the Mexican Matricula for identification is tantamount to admitting that the bearer is in the U.S. illegally, as no one here legally has a need for one.”

“The FBI and the Department of Justice say that the cards are not a reliable form of identification and pose “major criminal threats” and a “potential terrorist threat.”

For more on this story, go to the the blog link above.